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The Role of Business in Global Governance

Corporations as Norm-Entrepreneurs

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  • © 2010

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Part of the book series: Global Issues (GLOISS)

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The Role of Business in Global Governance  offers an empirically rich analysis of the new political role of corporations in the co-performance of governance functions beyond the state. Within comparative case studies, potential explanations of the political role of transnational corporations are systematically tested.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. The Research Context

  2. Causes of Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship

  3. Evaluating Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

    Annegret Flohr, Lothar Rieth

  • Department of International Politics, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

    Sandra Schwindenhammer

  • Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

    Klaus Dieter Wolf

  • Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany

    Klaus Dieter Wolf

About the authors

KLAUS DIETER WOLF holds the Chair for International Relations at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He is also the Deputy Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence 'Formation of Normative Orders'.

ANNEGRET FLOHR is a Research Associate in International Relations at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

LOTHAR RIETH is a Research Associate in the Department of Political Science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

SANDRA SCHWINDENHAMMER is a Research Associate in the Department of International Politics at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.

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